Garment-fastener



S. CURLIN.

GARMENT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.27,19I9.

Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

@mucamtoz 657v? cC/PL/N SETH CURLIN, OF HIGKMAN, KENTUCKY.

GABMENT-FASTENEB.

Specification of Letters Patent. P t t d 1 19g Application filed.December 27, 1919. Serial No. 347,708.

To all whom it may concern Be it lrnown that I, Snrrr CURLIN, a cit1-zen of the United States, residing at Hickman, in the county of Fultonand State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Garment-Fast en ers; and I do hereby declare the followmg to be a.full, clear, and exact descriptior of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to whiehit aymertains to malre and use thesame.

lhis invention relates to improvements in garment fasteners,particularly of that type forming the subject matter of my co-pende mgapplicatlon, Serial No. 270,007, filed January 10, 1919, being an,improvement thereon.

The invention has for itsobject, among other things, to provide foreffecting an in.- terlocking connection or action between theconstituent members or elements thereof, and, whereby said elements arealso caused to lie with their outer surfaces or faces practically flushwith each other and well inwardly, close to the garment out ofinadvertent engagement or catching onto an object with which they may bebrought mto contact by the movement of the wearer of the garment.

A. further object of the invention .15 to provide for casting eachmember of a set, constituting the fastener, the counterpart or duplicateof the other member, whereby only one die is required in casting a set,whereas two dies would otherwise be required; also by means of thisarrangement the members are retained separated when applied to thegarment.

k A still further object of the invention is to provide a fasteningsimple and of the minimum number of parts and which are effectiveagainst casual separation in use.

A. still. further object is to provide for carrying out the above endswith facility, effectively, and expeditiously.

Further objects of the invention will be later apparent, together withthe foregoing recital of objects, and will be appreciated from thefollowing description and accompanying illustration.

The invention therefore consists of certain instrumentalities andfeatures of con struction substantially as hereinafter more fullydisclosed and defined by the appended claims.

The drawing illustrates the preferred embodiment or one form of myinvention wherein it will be understood. that various changes andmodifications as relate to the detailed construction and arrangement ofparts may be made withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope of myinvention as covered by the claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of my fastener;

Fig.2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical longitudinal section of one of themembers or elements of my fastener, taken centrally thereto.

As cliaractm'istie features of my invention or improvement,l neferablystamp up or form the members or elements 1, 1 of the fastener from lightmetal, preferably sheet brass, and each as the duplicate or counterpartof the other. Thus in the n'n'umfacture of my fastener, as aforesaid, Iam enabled to provide for casting each of the members of a setconstituting a fastener, by the use of a single die, otherwise two dieswould be required for that purpose. Further, by means of thisarrangement the two members of the fastener are retained separated whenapplied to the garment.

Each of the members or elements 1, which as it relates to the shank orattaching portion 2 thereof is practically the same in construction asthe corresponding portion or shank as disclosed by my co-pendingapplication herein referred to, has its other portion preferablycontoured or stamped up substantially as disclosed, particularly in Fig.1, so as to form a loop The loop 3 is characterized by being providedwith for wardly divergent lateral arm-like portions at, which arm-likeportions are flared slightly outwardly and forwardly and rounded upontheir upper surfaces, their outer longitudi' nal edges being inclinedslightly inwardly, as at 4", the forward terminals of said armlikeportions being inclined from their outer edges inwardly and forwardly,as at 5. The arms or lateral portions 4c at their forward terminals areextended inwardly slightly, as at 6, being formed in continua tion of apreferably arcuate transverse bar 8 uniting said arms, and accordinglydepressed or arranged in a plane inwardly from, and out of longitudinalalinement with said arms as seen, the purpose of which will be presentlyseen.

The loop 3, it will be seen where it unites With the garment-attachingportion or shank 2, V is quite narrow or contracted, forming a neck-likeportion 9 and vides as the members are Coupled toget er, for

disposing or sliding the depressed 'arcuate transverse bars 8 of the twomembers into engagement with the. under-sides of said narrow neck-likeportions 9 of said members and bringing the divergent arms at of saidthe inadvertent catching or engagement thereof with any object whichwould be otherwise liable to occur by the movement of the wearer of thegarment withthe fasteller attached thereto. It will be observed that brounding the upper surfaces of the arm-lill'e portions 4 of the loop 3and slightly inclining the outer longitudinal edges thereof inwardly, asa and lnclining the. forward terminals of said arms in wardly an'dforwardly, as at 5, the lateral shifting or skewing" action of thearm-like portions 4 will be restricted so as to prevent their casual orinadvertent displacement and liability of the uncoupling action of themembers 1, 1. 7

From the foregoing it believed that the advantages of my invention,including simplicity and fewness of parts employed therein, togetherwith the other features specially above pointed out, will beappreciated. v c

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is: I I 1. A fastener of; the type described, in-

eluding interlocking members, each member the counterpart or duplicateof the other member and of loop formation comprising divergent arm-likeportions, the inner terminals of which have a constricted connectionwith the attaching end of the member, the outer terminals of saidarmlil(c portions having a depressed transverse connection therebetween.

2. A fastener of the type described, including interlockingmembers eachmember being the counterpart or duplicate of the other member and ofloop formation comprising divergent arn'i-like portions, the innerterminals of which have a constricted neck-like forming connection withthe attaching shank portion of the member, the outer terminals of saidarm-like portions having an arcuate depressed connection therebetween.

3. A fastener of the type described, including interlocking or couplingmembers, each member being the counterpart or duplicate of the othermember and of loopformation comprising divergent arm-lire portions theinner terminals of which have a constricted or neck-likc formingconnection with the attaching shank portion of the member, the outerends of said arm-like portions being flared and inclined from theirouter edges inwardly and inclined inwardly along the outer longitudinaledges thereof slightly, to restrict the lateral. skewing or shiftingaction of the members to prevent inadvertent disengagement or unconplingaction of said members, the outer terminals of said divergent arm-likeportions having an arcuate depressed transverse connection therebctween.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

SETH CUR-LIN.

